Discover how to make a Golden Dragon cannabis freezer tincture using the quick wash extraction technique, the QWET method. Made with frozen cannabis flower and high-proof grain alcohol, this tincture produces a lighter-colored, less-intensely flavored cannabis extract that can be used as a sublingual supplement, in recipes, or as a base to make other concentrates and extracts.
Table of Contents
- Article Features
- Why You Will Love This Method
- What You’ll Need
- The Step-by-Step Process
- Decarb Times
- Storage Instructions
- Green Dragon vs. Golden Dragon Tincture
- The Importance of Freezing
- Golden Dragon QWET Freezer Tincture Recipe
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Determine The Dose
- Should I Evaporate the Alcohol?
- Can I Make FECO from QWET?
- Can I Reclaim The Alcohol?
- Can I Make Concentrates From This QWET Tincture?
- What Can I Do With The Leftover Plant Material?
- Recipes You Will Love Using Tincture
Article Features
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- Just two ingredients needed: cannabis flower & high-proof grain alcohol
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Why You Will Love This Method
Members of my Well With Cannabis Community have asked me many times how to make a Golden Dragon tincture using the QWET method, so here is my easy beginner’s guide to making one at home!
QWET stands for ‘quick wash extraction technique’ or ‘quick wash ethanol extraction.’
The end product is a cannabis tincture called “the Golden Dragon” or “Ice Dragon.”
This QWET method uses frozen cannabis, freezing cold alcohol, and quicker wash times to produce a lighter-colored, less-intensely flavored – but still highly potent – cannabis extract.
Below, I will show you how to make a Golden Dragon tincture.
We will also discuss the differences between the Green and Golden Dragons and the reason for the QWET method’s specific steps, with fully answered FAQs to help you make this perfect the first time.
What You’ll Need
- Cannabis flower: You will need your desired amount of cannabis flowers, ranging from 1 gram to 1 ounce or more. Choose THC, CBD, or CBG-dominant flowers. You can purchase them from your local dispensary or hemp flower from my online shop. Do not forget to decarb before getting started.
- High-proof alcohol: You need high-proof grain alcohol. You want at least 150 proof, but ideally 190 or 200 proof. Lower-proof alcohols, like vodka, are not ideal. Be sure to check out my guide for where you can order high-proof grain alcohol online and have it shipped to your door, or learn more about what to ask for when visiting your local liquor store.
Note: a complete list of ingredients with amounts and printable instructions is located in the recipe card below.
The Step-by-Step Process
- Step 1 – If you haven’t already, decarb your cannabis. See the decarb recommendations guide below for different times for CBD, CBG, and THC.
- Step 2 – Place the decarbed flower in a mason jar inside the freezer. Freeze overnight.
- Step 3 – Place the alcohol inside the freezer. Freeze overnight.
- Step 4 – Pour the cold alcohol over the frozen flower. Screw the cap on tightly.
Decarb Times
- THCA → Δ9-THC – bake at 240°F/116°C for 40 minutes
- CBDA → CBD – bake at 240°F/116°C for 90 minutes
- CBGA → CBG – bake at 220°F/105°C for 60 minutes
- Δ9-THC → CBN – bake at 240°F/116°C for 180+ minutes (approximate; CBN forms slowly, mostly through aging and oxygen exposure, so a single bake yields only a little)
- Step 5 – Gently invert the mason jar to shake – do not shake vigorously.
- Step 6 – Place back in the freezer for 5 minutes.
- Step 7 – Remove the jar from the freezer, shake gently, and place it back in the freezer for 5 minutes.
- Step 8 – Repeat the above step one more time for a total of three times.
- Step 9 – Remove from the freezer and strain the tincture through a filter.
- Step 10 – Repeat a second and third wash, if desired.
- Step 11 – Store in a dark jar, like this dropper bottle.
- Step 12 – Move on to evaporate the alcohol, if desired. I use a Source Turbo machine to do this and reclaim the alcohol.
Note: complete step-by-step printable instructions are located in the recipe card below.
Storage Instructions
Store your tincture in glass, not plastic. A dark jar, like this dropper bottle, is ideal.
Clear glass is fine if you store it in a cool, dark place like a cupboard or freezer.
Tinctures can be stored for up to several months or even longer.
Green Dragon vs. Golden Dragon Tincture
A traditional cannabis tincture involves combining cannabis flowers and alcohol in a vessel and letting them sit and steep for a prolonged period, with no freezing involved.
I’ve seen traditional tinctures steep anywhere between a few hours and 24 hours, as described in my traditional tincture method, and up to 4-6 months or longer in some cases.
Fans of the traditional tincture prefer this method because it is believed that the longer soak times help extract a full spectrum of plant compounds, resulting in a complete full-extract cannabis oil.
In contrast, the QWET tincture combines frozen cannabis flowers and frozen alcohol for only 15 minutes, often called a ‘wash’ or ‘wash times.’
Compared to a traditional tincture, this quick wash freezer method produces a much lighter colored tincture with a much more mild cannabis taste that many people prefer.
The QWET method is generally preferred due to its mild taste and flavor, although lab tests prove this method is slightly less potent than the Green Dragon method.
Some generally prefer the traditional long-soak tincture because a more complete plant extract that includes more plant compounds like chlorophyll and terpenes produces a more medicinal final product.
Neither is right nor wrong; it is a matter of personal preference.
Feel free to experiment with it, adapt and adjust your method as you go along, and learn more about your personal preferences.
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The Importance of Freezing
For many different reasons, freezing the cannabis flower is extremely important in the QWET tincture process.
For the reasons listed below, it is important to keep your product and in-process tincture cold or as close to freezing as possible the entire time you are working with it.
More Effective Trichome Removal
Trichomes are the small, resinous glands found on cannabis plants that contain the cannabinoids we are after, mainly THC, CBD, CBG, etc.
The goal of the QWET process is to remove as many of the trichomes from the plant matter as possible.
Freezing the plant matter makes these trichomes more brittle and easily separated, or broken off, from the plant material.
This helps us get the most cannabinoids off the plant and into our tincture, resulting in a more potent final product.
Remove Chlorophyll
Freezing cannabis helps prevent the chlorophyll in the plant material from being absorbed into the alcohol tincture.
Chlorophyll, the most abundant pigment in plants, is responsible for the bright green color associated with kale, spinach, celery, and, yes – cannabis.
Chlorophyll produces a strong green taste and color we try to avoid in this extraction method.
While chlorophyll plays a vital role in healthy foods, like in the consumption of raw cannabis, many people do not want it in their final cannabis product for various reasons.
Remove Waxes and Lipids
Freezing also helps remove other naturally occurring plant compounds, like waxes and lipids, also called ‘the undesirables.’
When the flower is frozen, the waxes will stay frozen and can then be filtered out during the filtering or straining process.
This prevents the majority of waxes and lipids from entering your final product, resulting in a ‘cleaner’ end product.
Golden Dragon QWET Freezer Tincture
Ingredients
- 14 grams decarbed cannabis flower
- 8 ounces high-proof grain alcohol
Instructions
- If you haven't already, decarboxylate your cannabis. Be sure to decarb according to the specific cannabinoid present: CBD, CBG, THC, etc.
- Place the decarboxylated cannabis in the freezer. Also place the high-proof alcohol in the freezer. Freeze overnight at a minimum, ideally 24 hours.
- When ready to prepare your tincture, place the frozen cannabis in a mason jar.
- Pour the cold alcohol into the jar. You only need to add enough alcohol to cover the cannabis completely*.
- Screw the lid on tightly and shake gently. Place the jar back in the freezer for 5 minutes.
- Remove the jar from the freezer, shake gently, and place it back in the freezer for 5 minutes.
- Repeat the above step one more time, for a total of 3 times.
- Remove the jar from the freezer one last time and strain. Pour the tincture through your preferred straining system, separating the plant-matter from the alcohol, into a clean mason jar. A coffee filter in a funnel works well here.
- You now have a Golden Dragon QWET freezer tincture. You can choose to evaporate off as much or as little alcohol as desired.
- Store this tincture in a mason jar, amber-colored tincture jar, or other glass container. You can store at room temperature, in the refrigerator, or freezer. A tincture should last months, if not longer.
Notes
- You do not need to use the full 14 grams of cannabis called for in this recipe. You can use as much or as little cannabis as you want. For a small, starter batch, start with just 3.5 grams.
- Only use high-proof alcohol, the higher the better. Lower-proof alcohol, like vodka, is not ideal. Use this guide to finding high-proof alcohol, if needed.
- You do not need to use the full 8 ounces of alcohol, you just need enough to cover all of the cannabis in the container you are using. Anything more is a waste.
- If you want to make FECO, follow this guide for how to safely evaporate the alcohol from the tincture.
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Frequently Asked Questions
These are the questions I receive most often about the QWET tincture-making process from my Well With Cannabis Community.
If you still have additional questions, please feel free to join and post your question to the group.
You must be using food-safe alcohol, like high-proof grain alcohol, for this process and not toxic isopropyl alcohol to make your tincture. Here is my complete guide for getting high-proof alcohol for making tinctures.
Yes, and you should if it’s your first time experimenting with a tincture. The recipe below calls for 14 grams of cannabis flower, but you can honestly use whatever amount you want. Remember, you only need enough alcohol to cover the cannabis flower in the mason jar; exact proportions are not as necessary here.
Traditional long soak cannabis tinctures appear anywhere from vibrant bright green to dark green. This QWET tincture is not supposed to look like that. This tincture should appear very clear with a light yellow or orange hue, almost like a weak steeped tea. More green color signifies that more chlorophyll has been infused and thus is unwanted with this method. See the image above to compare the color of the two tinctures.
Yes, you can use the QWET method to extract just about any cannabinoid you want, including CBD. To make a CBD tincture, first source CBD-dominant flower. Then be sure to decarboxylate the flower for the appropriate time and temperature; the CBD flower should be decarbed at 240°F for 90 minutes. Then follow the process the same process as outlined in the instructions below.
This recipe recommends combining cannabis and alcohol for no longer than 15 minutes; however, as with all things cannabis, there is more than one way to achieve the desired result. Many people do a simple 3-minute wash and are happy with their results, while others do a 60-minute wash and are happy with their results. The goal is to remove as many trichomes from the plant as possible without removing additional plant compounds like chlorophyll, waxes, and lipids. If you combine the cannabis flowers and alcohol for longer than 15 minutes, you may not necessarily extract more THC or CBD, but you risk pulling more unwanted plant matter. For this reason, going for longer than 15 minutes moves you into the territory of a more traditional cannabis tincture. However, if you want to experiment to find a perfect wash time, please do!
Yes, you can make this recipe with decarbed kief. Just like with kief cannabutter, know that kief will make a more potent tincture.
Can I Do More Than One Wash?
There are also methods where people will do a ‘first wash,’ ‘second wash,’ and even a ‘third wash.’
This washing method uses the same cannabis flower but a fresh batch of frozen alcohol for each wash.
After the first wash, you would strain off the alcohol into a mason jar and proceed with a ‘second wash’ by adding new frozen alcohol to the already used batch of flowers.
If you use this method, label your jars as ‘first wash,’ ‘second wash,’ etc., so you know what you’re working with.
Alternatively, you can combine all of the washes for one final tincture. Again, the choice is up to you.
Is QWET As Potent?
I ran lab tests to compare the traditional Green Dragon cannabis tincture to this Golden Dragon QWET tincture, and the results are posted here.
According to the results, the Green Dragon long soak tincture method produces a more potent tincture. The results suggest that the longer the soak, the more potent the final product.
However, this method produces a stronger-tasting tincture with more residual plant matter like chlorophyll.
This leaves you, the consumer, deciding to choose potency over taste. As with all things cannabis, I always recommend going low and starting slow when experimenting with a new product.
How Do I Estimate the Final Potency?
Without lab testing, you’re essentially guessing the final potency of your tincture, or any cannabis edible, for that matter.
However, if you know the starting percentage of THC or CBD in your cannabis flower and how much you used by weight in grams, you may be able to use my online calculator to get a ballpark range.
For this reason, I recommend weighing out your cannabis flower with a digital scale before making the tincture, so you have a starting point.
Once you have calculated the milligrams of THC or CBD used, this number will remain the same regardless of how much alcohol you keep or evaporate.
It is also important to know that cannabis edibles will affect everyone differently.
You and your spouse may consume the same amount of an identical product and have vastly different responses or experiences.
This is normal, and again why I recommend starting low and going slow when dosing tincture.
Determine The Dose
Want to get a more accurate guesstimate of the potency of your cannabis infusions and extractions? Try my popular edibles dosage calculator. Not sure what your perfect dose is? Learn more here.
Should I Evaporate the Alcohol?
This is a personal preference, and you must experiment to find what works best.
Some people do not evaporate off the alcohol and prefer the cannabis to be infused in alcohol for more effective sublingual absorption.
Some people evaporate off just a portion of the alcohol, 1/4-3/4 of the total volume, to help remove some alcohol burn.
Some people evaporate 100% alcohol to make FECO or other cannabis concentrates and extracts.
There is no one correct answer as to what you should do; this is all personal preference based on your desired outcome.
If you want to evaporate the alcohol, follow my guide full of safe evaporation methods.
Can I Make FECO from QWET?
Yes, you can turn this QWET tincture into FECO, also known as full-extract cannabis oil.
However, the jury is still out as to whether or not the QWET tincture truly contains the full spectrum of cannabis compounds due to the quick wash times.
Regardless, you can still evaporate off the alcohol from this tincture to make a sticky cannabis concentrate like FECO.
You can follow the same directions here for safely evaporating off the alcohol and making FECO at home.
The guide also comes with instructions for mixing your final FECO product with MCT oil for a more viscous sublingual product.
Can I Reclaim The Alcohol?
If you are serious about making cannabis tinctures at home long-term, I recommend thinking of ways to reclaim your alcohol so you’re not spending as much money.
One way to reclaim the alcohol is to use a water distiller.
A distiller will heat the alcohol, evaporate it, and send it to another waiting vessel, where you can reclaim and use it again for future use.
Another way is to invest in a machine that does this work for you, like the Source Turbo or ETOH Pro from Extract Craft.
This machine will also help you make cannabis concentrates, as explained below.
Can I Make Concentrates From This QWET Tincture?
For many people, making this QWET tincture is just the beginning step for making cannabis concentrates at home.
While making cannabis concentrates at home requires a bit more investment of time, money, and energy, it is worthwhile for many of my Well With Cannabis Community members.
If you are interested in making cannabis concentrates and extracts at home, I recommend checking out Extract Craft for helpful resources and machines to help you through the process.
What Can I Do With The Leftover Plant Material?
I’ve heard people say all of the THC has been removed from the remaining plant material, but I’ve also had people save it and say they’ve had a great experience using it in various ways.
I think it’s at least worth experimenting with the leftovers to see if they’re worth saving for you.
If you decide to give it a go, there are many recipes and ways to use the leftovers in this article for using leftover pulp.
Recipes You Will Love Using Tincture
Once you have your cannabis tincture prepared, you can use it in many recipes.
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Hey there! Tried this receipe for the first time & I think I may have messed up somewhere. My after evaporating about 2 oz of the alcohol my tincture still smells really strong if alcohol & isnt as tacky as I was expecting- still very liquidy. Do you think I went wrong in tbe decarb process?
Hi Cj. How much alcohol did you start with? In order to avoid the alcohol smell and taste, you want to evaporate all the alcohol. Doing so, you’ll have Full-Extract Cannabis Oil (FECO) remaining, which is a dark, sticky, tar-like substance of all the cannabis plant goodness! The decarb process controls the effects of the cannabis, not necessarily the consistency. I hope this helps!
I love these tinctures, my question is about the freezing, why do we do that?
Thank you so much for this wonderful recipe. I am doing the QWET THCA one hoping it will ease some of my arthritis pain.
Hi Dawn. Sending you good vibes for arthritis relief! ✨ Freezing cannabis helps prevent some of the undesirables from leaching into your final product. The chlorophyll in the plant material absorbs less into the alcohol tincture when frozen, as well as other naturally occurring plant compounds, like waxes and lipids. On the flip side, the cannabis trichomes break off easier when frozen allowing for more cannabinoids extracted into the alcohol in a shorter amount of time.
Emily, I can’t thank you enough. I’m still a bit new to the more complicated cannabis recipes, and I’ve already learned so much from your site. I have 190 proof alcohol and decarbed flower in the freezer for tincture I’ll make tomorrow, which I’ll then use to make canna-sugar for baking. I can’t WAIT!
However, I’m hoping you can help. I don’t understand why every recipe I can find for tincture has a certain amount of alcohol (as recipes typically do for an ingredient), in this case 1 c/8 oz. But in the instructions everything says to just pour enough to cover the flower. Which is it? How do I end up with 1 c (or more) of tincture – do I just keep repeating the QWET process until I have enough, or am I missing something?
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me in clarifying this process, and thanks again so much for your amazing website and all the info!
Hi Stacy. Thank you for all your kind words. We’re happy to support you every step of your edibles journey! ? So it really depends on how strong you want your tincture. The more alcohol you have covering the flower, the less potent the tincture. If you need 8oz of tincture, you can start with 8oz of alcohol and then fill it with enough flower for it to be covered just enough. Or, you can start with a desired amount of flower and then add 8oz of alcohol. There really is no right or wrong way, just potency determinant really. Does this make sense? You can use Emily’s edibles calculator to help you determine the strength of your tincture. The Most Accurate Edible Dosage Calculator. I hope this helps!
Soooo, I tried making an alcohol tincture in my second hand herbal infusion machine (which to my defense I do not have the instructions to nor could I find them online) and I decarbed my weed and poured it and the alcohol 100 proof vodka as it’s all I could find in, turned it on and a few minutes later I got an error read so I took it all out. The only thing I could think of to do at that time was pit it all in a jar in the freezer hoping for the best. That was 3 days ago. I’ve shaken it periodically. So any idea of what I could do to save this?
Hi Laurie. No worries here, as you can finish off as if you were making Green Dragon Cannabis Alcohol Tincture. Soak for desired time, strain all plant matter, and you’ll have an alcohol cannabis tincture. An infusion machine isn’t required. ☺️
Thank you for this easy recipe. I hope you can clarify a couple of questions:
1. How do the additional washes affect potency? Weaker? Stronger?
2. Does freezing for longer than 24 hrs affect potency?
Hi Tamie. 1. Each additional wash will be less potent than the one before due to less cannabinoids and terpenes remaining in the flower. 2. Freezing longer than 24 hours will provide a slightly more potent tincture, but will also have more chlorophyll and undesirable plant matter in the final product.
I made a batch of golden dragon for my wife this last August and she has loved using it almost nightly and we still have some left. I evaporated about 1/2 the alcohol to yield 4 oz total. Do you have any suggestions on how to make the tincture more palatable without evaporating more of the alcohol? Can honey or anything else be added to sweeten it? Thanks!
Hi Andrew. There are a few options you can try. Honey is a good option, but it doesn’t dissolve in alcohol so you’ll want to add a tiny bit of water to the honey to make it more of a liquid before adding to the tincture. LorAnn flavor drops are a big hit as well as mixing the tincture in with a warm beverage like tea, coffee or hot chocolate. I hope this helps!
Hi Emily,
Thanks for your website it’s very good. I’m in Australia and it’s still very backward over her in relation to pot consumption. I’m starting to make gummies this week for recreational use for myself and my mates.
So glad I found the golden dragon recipe and the knowledge of decarbing the pot first.
A mate has been making them with poor results and this explains why
Thanks so much,
Mark
Hello Mark! Thank you for your kind words; I am sorry Australia is not quite where it needs to be. I am so glad I could help you from the other side of the world! I hope everything turns out well 🙂 Keep us posted!
2 questions in my state I can only purchase 151 proof without a license will that work? Also, is there something we can do with the flower after straining process? TIA
Hello Andra, yes, 151 proof alcohol will work if that’s the only option. Here are some ideas for saving the flower after; however, with this method, there shouldn’t be too much good stuff left 😀
Do the trichomes that come off and go through a coffee filter have any thc in them or has the alcohol dissolved it out of the trichomes? Wondering if I should leave them in or filter out with a small micron filter.
Hello Dr. Rock, I’m not 100% sure, but I do know that trichomes can range in size, many of them being too small to see 🙂
I’m in the process of making tincture and was wondering if freezing the decarbed buds and the alcohol doing a shake and then going green dragon for 30 days would help with the extraction? Looking forward to your thoughts!
Thanks for all of your knowledge sharing. You are the best!
Hey Roger. I have lab tests showing that the longer the tincture sits, the more effective the extraction. However, letting it sit for 30-days would defeat the purpose of the golden dragon method and expose a lot more chlorophyll into your final infusion. Ultimately, it comes down to personal preference; there is nothing wrong with experimenting and seeing if you like this final result.
Thank you for all your help with this. I’m new to THC and am enjoying the ease of your directions. However, I do have a question. Will the 2nd and 3rd washes in the alcohol result in the same % of THC in the tinture? Just wondering. Thx.
Hello Susan! You are most welcome, I am glad you’re finding them helpful 😀 I do not have lab tests to confirm how much THC will be in each wash, but it is not likely that they will have the same %. The first wash will have the most, and it will reduce with each was.
Hi what would be the best recipe to use with an infusion machine like the MBM?
Hey JD. You don’t need a machine to help you with the tincture-making process; it really would just add an extra step and more clean up 🙂 The MBM is best for making butter and oil infusions!
There’s a recipe for tincture in the MBM directions !!! I’ve never used it I’ve only made butter with it.
I make the golden dragon method to make sugar. I don’t shake it a lot ? I leave it in the freezer for a couple weeks. It doesn’t turn too green from chlorophyll. I make about 12cups of sugar out of an ounce decarbed. Separate the alcohol from plant material. I find that the trichomes are large sometimes and float to the top. I let it come to room temperature and then separate the alcohol from plant material. I’m careful and just put my finger over the jar to separate. I don’t mind a few dregs in my sugar. I want those floaters in my sugar. It acts like hash. They are little balls that break like powder. I want that in my sugar. That’s why I don’t use a filter to separate. My sugar is plenty strong. I evaporate until I have about an inch at the bottom of a mason jar. I swirl the jar until it picks up everything at the bottom of the jar. Then I pour it over 12cups of white sugar. I stir a lot to get it evenly distributed. I store it in Debbie Meyer green containers. I don’t even let it dry. It acts a little like brown sugar. This is my method for Golden Dragon. It makes a lot and for every time I add another Ounce to the plant material. I still only fill the Mason jar 1/2 full with Everclear 190 proof alcohol. Decarbing makes it shrink. I use a machine to decarb because my stove doesn’t go to 240 degrees. Only higher. Anyways I hope that helps people that have questions about Golden Dragon.
Hello Laurie! Thank you for sharing your detailed method for making Golden Dragon tincture and infused sugar—your process is so helpful! The steps you’ve outlined, from using Everclear to incorporating decarbed material into sugar, provide practical insights for newcomers. Thank you 😀
I wrote a recipe but I didn’t mention that every other time I make sugar I make a fresh ounce. Then the next time I add another ounce to my last plant material. After it’s been used twice I toss it. There’s not much left in it Maybe 1/2 strength in only half of what’s left ? So next jar I put a fresh oz. Save it for the next jar full , add another oz. Only fill jar 1/2 full of everclear. Put in the freezer for a couple weeks. That’s just what I do. I don’t shake it a lot just let it sit in there. I shake it a couple times the first day. Every once in a while I shake it. I don’t end up with chlorophyll tasting tincture or sugar. I evaporate the alcohol with an ordinary fan. I put it on a shelf face down and the jar directly under it. It takes two days usually. Very slow but safe. I’m going to look for a little crock pot that has warm though. I’m sure it’ll be faster. That’s the way I do it. This should go with my last post. I wish we could edit after I posted it. I saw stuff I missed that would’ve been helpful.
Thank you so much for sharing additional detailes from your process, Laurie! It’s really helpful to see the care and precision you put into making your tincture and sugar. This kind of step-by-step explanation will help others in our community looking to refine their approach as well.
The first time I made this it came put so good! The second time I made it nothing happened. I even tried evaporating some of the liquid off to improve potency but still nothing. I don’t understand how following a recipe exactly produces two completely different results?
Hi Maggie. Did you use the same starting material each time? Did you decarb both times? And I would consider evaporating off most of the alcohol, as it can really burn and be uncomfortable.
Thank you so much for a really excellent overview, especially the page where you detail how you compared the various methods. My question for the QWET method is, when you strain the tincture after triple washing, do you press on the solids in the filter to extract the remaining liquid? Or would this just end up adding a lot of the undesirable plant compounds to the finished product? I supposed the other way to make sure you get everything would be to rinse the solids once or twice with more alcohol in the filter?
John, it’s personal preference for what you want to do, but yes, any squeezing or pressing would likely add more unwanted compounds, like chlorophyll, to the final product.
Does it make a difference if we are using a fresh crop (new fresh) or last seasons crop (older but still good) cannabis ?
Hey Ed! From my understanding, fresh cannabis will naturally have more water and chlorophyll present than dried cannabis. This may transfer over to your final infusion, but if you’re freezing well and washing quick – you should be just fine 🙂